Service provider cloud infrastructure for VMware

The profound effect of digital transformation now felt by the modern service provider is equally exciting and fraught with uncertainty. As business leaders grapple with digital transformation across IT, workforce and security operations, information and preparation is the key.

The service provider industry—collectively, communications service providers, cloud service providers, managed hosting providers and enterprise/consumer web tech companies—is not immune to the effects of digital transformation. In fact, many providers are in the unique position of needing to embark on their own form of a digital transformation—transforming their own operations and infrastructure, transforming how they interface with upstream partners, advertisers and digital content, and transforming the downstream services they offer to enterprise and consumers.

See how Dell EMC and partners can help you address this transformation across your service provider business, technology and operations.

Dell EMC Ready Solution for VMware NFV Platform

Cloud infrastructure software

VMware Integrated OpenStack or vCloud Director

VMware Integrated OpenStack is a VMware-supported OpenStack distribution (distro) that makes it easier for IT to run a production-grade OpenStack-based deployment on top of their existing VMware infrastructure. Building on their existing expertise, VMware administrators can foster innovation and agility by providing their developers with simple vendor-neutral OpenStack APIs on top of VMware’s best-of-breed Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) infrastructure. Key administration capabilities, including install, upgrade, troubleshooting, and cost-visibility are provided via deep integration with already familiar VMware management tools, enabling fast time to innovation and lower total cost of ownership.

VMware vCloud Director® orchestrates the provisioning of software-defined data center services as complete virtual data centers that are ready for consumption in a matter of minutes. Virtual data centers provide virtualized compute, networking, storage, and security that can be provisioned to make relevant workloads operational in minutes. Software-­defined data center service and the virtual data centers fundamentally simplify infrastructure provisioning, and enable IT to move at the speed of business.

VMware vRealize

VMware vRealize® Suite delivers a comprehensive cloud management platform designed to deliver and manage IT services across private, public, and hybrid clouds. vRealize speeds up the delivery of IT services through automation and pre-defined policies, providing high levels of agility and flexibility for developers and lines of business while maintaining governance and control. vRealize supports service delivery and service lifecycle management across heterogeneous application environments that are a mix of both traditional and container based applications.

Dell EMC Assurance Suite

Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite provides the deep visibility and insight IT operations needs to ensure consistent service levels for applications and services delivered from software-defined data centers. These insights enable IT operations to visualize, analyze, and optimize availability, performance, and configurations of cross-domain physical and virtual environments, before business services are impacted.

Dell EMC Open Networking

OS10 and Open Networking ecosystem partners

The Dell EMC Networking OS10 Enterprise Edition is a Network Operating System supporting multiple architectures and environments. The networking world is moving from a monolithic stack to a pick-your-own-world. The OS10 solution is designed to allow multi-layered disaggregation of the network functionality. While OS10 contributions to Open Source provide users freedom and flexibility to pick their own 3rd party networking, monitoring, management and orchestration applications, OS10 Enterprise Edition bundles industry hardened networking stack featuring standard L2 and L3 protocols over a standard and well accepted CLI interface.

VMware NSX

VMware NSX® is the network virtualization and security platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), delivering the operational model of a virtual machine for entire networks. With NSX, network functions including switching, routing, and firewalling are embedded in the hypervisor and distributed across the environment. This effectively creates a “network hypervisor” that acts as a platform for virtual networking and security services. Similar to the operational model of virtual machines, virtual networks are programmatically provisioned and managed independently of underlying hardware. NSX reproduces the entire network model in software, enabling any network topology—from simple to complex multitier networks—to be created and provisioned in seconds. Users can create multiple virtual networks with diverse requirements, leveraging a combination of the services offered via NSX to build inherently more secure environments.

VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™ can help achieve your unique business needs by delivering virtualization with intelligent operations management, purpose-built to get the best performance, availability and efficiency from your infrastructure and applications from day one.

Get up to 4x performance increase for common management tasks with iDRAC9’s new dual-core ARM processor (compared with iDRAC8)

Use the same next-generation of embedded automation to standardize BIOS and secure boot configuration, firmware updates, server asset inventory, health monitoring, and power/reset control across all PowerEdge servers

Proactive automated support embedded resolves issues up to 90% faster

Comprehensive Security

Fully signed firmware updates; embedded trust only allows authenticated code to run

Dell EMC Extreme Scale storage

VMware vSAN

Accelerate infrastructure modernization with VMware vSAN™ to make IT a strategic, cost-effective advantage for your company. By powering the leading Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions, vSAN helps customers evolve their data center without risk, control IT costs and scale to tomorrow’s business needs. vSAN, native to the market-leading hypervisor, delivers flash-optimized, secure storage for all of your critical vSphere workloads. vSAN is built on industry-standard x86 servers and components that help lower TCO by up to 50% versus traditional storage. It delivers the agility to easily scale IT and offers the industry’s first native HCI encryption.

New enhanced stretched clusters and intelligent, 1-click operations further lower costs for affordable site protection (50% less than leading traditional solutions) and simple day-to-day management. Seamless integration with VMware vSphere® and the entire VMware stack makes it the simplest storage platform for virtual machines—whether running business-critical databases, virtual desktops or next-generation applications.